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We have received an email from comments advising us about changes that they are making to their platform. One of these changes is that they are introducing a new “Pro” service which will continue to be ad-free. However, if we wish to continue to use the free version then we would have to use their advertising platform as well. We …
comments Comments Platform Removal Read MoreWindows Essentials 2012 will be reaching its end of life in January 2017. This means that you will no longer be able to download the software from Microsoft. However, we have downloaded the offline full installer for Windows Essentials 2012 and you can download it from us. Just click the button below to download the offline installer: Windows Essentials 2012 Offline …
Windows Essentials 2012 – End of Life in January 2017 Read MoreSo you have Windows 10 and you want to know what your product key is so that you can keep this as a record. Not everyone will want to do this, but some do so here is a quick and simple way of finding your Windows 10 product key. Right click on the Start Button and then select “Command Prompt”: …
Windows 10 – Find your Product Key Read MoreIf you are a laptop or Surface user then you might be interested in looking through a report on your battery and you can do this by running a very simple command within Windows. All you need to do is to open a Command Prompt by right clicking on your Windows 10 Start button and selecting “Command Prompt”: When the …
Generate a Battery Report in Windows Read MoreWe were recently setting up a test lab with an old version of Exchange 2007 to replicate a customers environment and we had created the required 250 users in Active Directory using some scripts but we also had to then create the mailboxes for these accounts. Not wanting to sit there manually creating all these mailboxes, we used a quick …
Exchange 2007 – Create Multiple Mailboxes using Powershell Read MoreAs you may have noticed yesterday we have had a number of issues with our hosting company nuking our hosting for seemingly no reason! This took out all our websites for about 7 hours yesterday and in the end we had to fix the problem that they created ourselves. As a result we will be moving hosting company shortly as …
Hosting Issues – Now Resolved Read MoreWith the new year we are delighted to announce the launch of our new logo… We will be migrating all our sites and social media accounts to this new logo over the coming weeks and will also be updating our freeware where we need to so look out for the new versions coming soon. We have already updated our Twitter, …
New Logo Launch Read MoreIf you are having problems with updating your Windows 7 machine, then you should download the monthly update rollups now provided by Microsoft. These contain a large amount of updates to a particular date and are released each month. Once you have downloaded the update file and installed it, you should then only have a few minor updates to install …
December 2016 Security Monthly Quality Rollup for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Read MoreWe are running a competition today on our Twitter account to win a copy of Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition on PC. To enter, just follow us on Twitter and retweet this tweet. We will announce the winner on our Twitter account by the end of the week. Good Luck!
Win Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition on PC Read MoreApple are currently testing their iOS version 10.3 ready for a possible release on 10th January. Possible new features include a brand new cinema mode. Rumours include that the new feature should appear on the control centre and its icon is to be in the shape of popcorn. This could be a new way to dim your device at the touch of …
Apple iOS 10.3 Release and Feature Rumours Read MoreWe were recently talking to a friend about EA Access subscription and he said that it is a nightmare to cancel the subscription once you have activated it. Well we have had a look into it and it seems fairly straight forward to us but thought we would write up a quick post about how to do it anyway. First …
How to cancel EA Access subscription on Xbox One Read MoreSophos has always been an excellent anti-virus package for corporate users but you can now get Sophos for home use completely free of charge. You can create yourself an account with Sophos and then install on up to 10 computers for family and friends and also centrally manage them from a web console. Having been using McAfee Internet Security for …
Sophos Anti-Virus and Web Protection Free for Home Users Read More
